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Associate Director, Facilities
Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp · 🇺🇸 US - Rockville - MD
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 99 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp paid sponsored hires in similar roles15 certified filings for “Associate Director Oncology Outcomes Research” (Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists) in MD: $126k–$185k, median $140k. Most were filed at wage level II (47%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp
The US Department of Labor certified 99 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Lead the Facilities and Maintenance function for the Rockville Manufacturing Center (RMC), a GMP cell therapy manufacturing facility. Provide day-to-day and longer-term leadership for facility operations, maintenance, reliability, calibration support, and associated service delivery. Develop a high-performing, people-focused team and ensure facility and manufacturing equipment are safe, compliant, available, and reliable to support efficient operations and reliable batch supply to patients. Drive customer-focused service, disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and readiness for site growth. Typical Accountabilities • Provide operational leadership for RMC facilities and maintenance services, ensuring robust, compliant, responsive, and customer-focused support for manufacturing, laboratories, warehouse, offices, utilities, and other site operations. • Lead, manage, coach, and develop the Facilities and Maintenance team, including technical personnel. Establish clear priorities and accountability while strengthening capability, engagement, performance, workforce planning, and succession readiness. • Develop and implement site facilities and maintenance plans, strategies, procedures, service standards, preventive maintenance programs, and calibration schedules aligned with business priorities, global policies, regulatory expectations, and industry best practices. • Ensure the reliability, compliance, availability, and efficient operation of facility and manufacturing equipment. Oversee maintenance execution, troubleshooting, repairs, upgrades, and restoration activities to minimize downtime and protect production schedules. • Partner closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, SHE, Supply Chain, Digital, and other site functions to prioritize work, resolve equipment and facility issues, coordinate shutdowns and interventions, and support reliable batch supply to patients. • Support new equipment installations, qualifications, commissioning, facility expansions, fit-outs, and other capital or site growth projects, ensuring effective maintenance strategies, documentation, spare-parts planning, and operational handover. • Ensure all facilities and maintenance activities and documentation comply with GMP requirements, safety and environmental standards, internal policies, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Maintain a state of inspection readiness. • Establish, monitor, and improve Facilities and Maintenance performance metrics, service levels, and work-management practices. Use data, risk-based decision-making, and structured problem-solving to improve reliability, service, compliance, and efficiency. • Implement preventive, predictive, risk-based, and reliability-centered maintenance approaches appropriate to the site. Identify recurring equipment issues and drive sustainable corrective and continuous improvement actions. • Manage the Facilities and Maintenance operating budget, forecasts, spare-parts inventory, service contracts, and external resources to deliver cost-effective services and appropriate value for RMC. • Proactively manage the performance of outsourced service providers and contractors, including expectations, safety, quality, compliance, service levels, and continuous improvement. • Support emergency response, crisis management, and business continuity planning for facility and equipment-related events, helping ensure site readiness and effective recovery. • Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, customer service, sustainability, ownership, and continuous improvement through visible leadership, training, employee engagement, and consistent standards. • Champion Lean ways of working, digital tools, and modern maintenance practices, including effective use of the computerized maintenanc